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Seven Generations of Craftsmanship
The Kazulin family tradition of designing and building fine watercraft began seven
generations ago on the Adriatic Coast of Croatia. Since then, generations
of the family produced commercial and pleasure boats in Europe and North
America.
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In the early 1900's, Simon Kazulin built many of the early motor
driven wooden fishing vessels when he ran the Skansi Boatworks in Gig Harbor
Washington USA. His son Mike continued this tradition with his line of Kazulin-
Cole wooden boats into the 1960's in nearby Tacoma Washington.
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Meanwhile, Simon's youngest son Velko remained in Croatia designing and building
very fine wooden excursion boats and runabouts, and by the late 1950s diversified.
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Velko built not only the very first fiberglass production boat in Eastern
Europe, but also one of the first modern "retro style" boats; a 20 foot barcha.
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She has been produced in the thousands, is still in production in Croatia, and
can be found in Adriatic ports from the Dalmatian coast to the shores of NorthEastern Italy.
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